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Mark 10

¹And he left there and arrived in the region across the Jordan from Judea, and again a crowd came to him, and as it was his custom, he taught them again. ²And the Pharisees were approaching him and asking him if it was legal for a man to divorce his wife. They were testing him. ³But he answered them, "What did Moses command you?" ⁴So they said, "Moses permitted us to write a divorce paper and to divorce." ⁵But Jesus said to them, "He wrote you that commandment because of your hardness of heart. ⁶But from the beginning of creation male and female he created them. ⁷Because of this a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, ⁸and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two but one flesh. ⁹So what God has joined together nobody should separate." ¹⁰Now when they were in the house again his disciples were questioning him about this. ¹¹He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery with her, ¹²and if she, having divorced her husband, marries another, she commits adultery."

¹³And they brought him children so that he might touch them. But the disciples rebuked them. ¹⁴But when Jesus saw what had happened he was indignant and said to them, "Let the children come to me, don't prevent them, for the kingdom of God is made up of this sort of people!" ¹⁵I tell you truly, whoever doesn't receive the kingdom of God as a child will never enter into it." ¹⁶And he called the children, placed his hands on them, and blessed them.

¹⁷And as he was going out on the road, someone ran up to him and knelt before him, and asked him, "Good teacher, what must I do so that I may inherit eternal life?" ¹⁸But Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me 'good'? There is nobody good, except one, that's God! ¹⁹You know the commandments, "Don't murder, don't commit adultery, don't steal, don't bear false witness, don't defraud, honor your father and your mother." ²⁰He said to him, "Teacher, I have kept all these commands since I was a youth!" ²¹Jesus looked at him intently and loved him, so he said to him, "You lack one thing. God, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven, come, follow me." ²²But the man became very sad when he heard this word, and he went away grieving, because he had many possessions.

²³Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How difficult it is for those who have possessions to enter into the kingdom of God." ²⁴Now his disciples were amazed at his words, so Jesus answered them again, "Children, how difficult it is to enter into the kingdom of God! ²⁵It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God." ²⁶They were even more amazed, saying to one another, "Then who can be saved?" ²⁷But Jesus, gazing at them, said, "For men it is impossible, but not for God. For all things are possible with God." ²⁸Peter said to him, "Behold, we have left everything and followed you." ²⁹And Jesus said, "Truly I tell you, There is nobody who has left household or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake, and for the sake of the good news, ³⁰who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, households and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields with persecution, and in the coming age, eternal life. ³¹But many who are first will be last, and those who are last will be first."

³²Now they were on the road going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them, and the disciples were amazed. But those who followed were afraid. And taking the twelve aside again, he began to tell them again about things that were about to happen to him. ³³"Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the son of man will be betrayed to the high priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death, and hand him over to the gentiles, ³⁴And they will strike him, spit on him, whip him, and kill him, but after three days he will rise up from the dead."

³⁵And James and John, the sons of Zebedee approached him and said, "Teacher, We want to ask you something and have you do it for us." ³⁶So he said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?" ³⁷They said to him, "Appoint us [to positions] so that one of us will sit at your right hand and one at your left in your glory." ³⁸Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you're asking for! Can you drink the cup that I am drinking or be baptized with the baptism that with which I'm being baptized?" ³⁹They said to him, "We can." Jesus said to them, "The cup that I am drinking you will drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism which which I am being baptized. ⁴⁰But to sit at my right or my left is not mine to give, but is for those for who it was prepared." ⁴¹Now when the ten had heard this they became indignant at James and John. ⁴²And Jesus called them and told them, "You know that those who consider themselves rulers of the gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. ⁴³But it is not to be this way among you, but whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant. ⁴⁴And whoever wants to be first among you must be the servant of all. ⁴⁵For the Son of man didn't come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many people."

⁴⁶Now they came to Jericho, and as he was coming out of Jericho with his disciples and a sizable crowd, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar sat by the road. ⁴⁷And when he had heard that Jesus the Nazarene was coming, he cried out and said, "Son of David, Jesus, have mercy on me." ⁴⁸And some folks began to rebuke him so that he would shut up. ⁴⁹But Jesus stopped and said, "Call him." And they called the blind man, saying to him, "Calm down! He's calling you!" ⁵⁰But throwing his outer garment off he stood up and went to Jesus. ⁵¹And Jesus answered him and said, "What do you want me to do?" And the blind man said to him, "Rabbi! I want to see!" ⁵²And Jesus said to him, "Go! Your faith has healed you." And immediately he began to see and followed him in the way.

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